C40 Cassette
Release: 10th April 2014
Label: Mudblob Tapes
Catalog number: MUDBLOB1

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Ruben Bacher's Taos Hum is a 40 minute album of wraithlike drones and psychoacoustic experiments. Auditory phenomena, such as The Hum (a persistent humming noise heard by a small percentage of people in places all around the globe) or binaural beats, have spawned explaination attempts beyond scientific proof. Some are said to cause negative effects on health and wellbeing, others are supposed to stimulate the brain in positive ways and are used for meditation rituals. Ruben Bacher reduces such phenomena to their physical core and enables the listener to absorb these by all means hypnotic drones and noises without bias.

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Ruben Bacher - Taos Hum (Mudblob Tapes 2014)

A tree's year rings are analysed for their strength, thickness and rate of growth. This data serves as basis for a generative process that outputs piano music. It is mapped to a scale which is again defined by the overall appearance of the wood (ranging from dark to light and from strong texture to light texture). The foundation for the music is certainly found in the defined ruleset of programming and hardware setup, but the data acquired from every tree interprets this ruleset very differently. This record features seven recordings from different Austrian trees. They were generated on the Years installation in Vienna, January 2012.

Bartholomäus Traubeck - Years

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